VISA: Netstation's virtual Internet SCSI adapter
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
IEEE Internet Computing
NIST Net: a Linux-based network emulation tool
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Network-attached Smart Peripheral for Loosely Coupled Grid Computer
HPCASIA '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region
Netchannel: a VMM-level mechanism for continuous, transparentdevice access during VM migration
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Composable IO: A Novel Resource Sharing Platform in Personal Clouds
CloudCom '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing
Remote device support in thin client network
Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Bangalore Conference
SEUS'07 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 international conference on Software technologies for embedded and ubiquitous systems
Remote plug and play USB devices for mobile terminals
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
Composable IO: a novel resource sharing platform in personal Clouds
The Journal of Supercomputing
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As personal computing becomes more popular and affordable, the availability of peripheral devices is also increasing rapidly. However, these peripheral devices can usually only be connected to a single machine at time. The ability to share peripheral devices between computers without any modification of existing computing environments is, consequently, a highly desirable goal, as it improves the efficiency and usability of such devices. Existing device sharing technologies in the pervasive computing area are not sufficient for peripheral devices designed for personal computers, because these technologies do not provide the degree of network-transparency necessary for both applications and device drivers. In this paper, we propose USB/IP as a peripheral bus extension over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. This novel device sharing approach is based on the sophisticated peripheral interfaces that are supported in most modern operating systems. Using a virtual peripheral bus driver, users can share a diverse range of devices over networks without any modification in existing operating systems and applications. Our experiments show that USB/IP has sufficient I/O performance for many USB devices, including isochronous ones. We also describe performance optimization criteria that can be used to achieve further performance improvements.